[HarfBuzz] Question on converting UTF-8 codepoints to complex glyphs

[Behdad Esfahbod]

Oh oh!  Can you point us to the tutorial page?

Nate, can you fix this please?

On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 5:24 PM Paul Daughetee <Daughetee at finaldraft.com>
wrote:

> Thanks Richard for the pointer. I wish I had seen Jonathan's post.
> However, it never appeared in the digest I received from the list (nor to
> me directly) so I never saw it. To be fair, the following is from the
> HarfBuzz tutorial on the "Why do I need a shaping engine?" page:  "For
> example, in Tamil, when the letter "TTA" (ட) letter is followed by "U" (உ),
> the pair must be replaced by the single glyph "டு". The sequence of Unicode
> characters "டஉ" needs to be substituted with a single "டு" glyph from the
> font." So maybe that needs an edit.
>
> I converted my UTF-8 string to be [0xE0, 0xAE, 0x88, 0xE0, 0xAE, 0x9F,
> 0xE0, 0xAF, 0x81] and I finally got back the correct glyph identifiers. So
> thank you all for your responses. I'm sure I'll have more questions as this
> project evolves.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham at ntlworld.com>
> Sent: April 11, 2019 12:16 PM
> To: harfbuzz at lists.freedesktop.org
> Cc: Paul Daughetee <Daughetee at finaldraft.com>
> Subject: Re: [HarfBuzz] Question on converting UTF-8 codepoints to complex
> glyphs
>
> On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 18:03:10 +0000
> Paul Daughetee <Daughetee at finaldraft.com> wrote:
>
> >  டு  [...]
> > is the ligature formed by the codepoints corresponding to the glyphs ட
> > and உ.
>
> No!  You already have been told by Jonathan Kew.
>
> டு is the codepoint sequence <U+0B9F TAMIL LETTER TTA, U+0BC1 TAMIL VOWEL
> SIGN U>; it is **not** the ligature of ட <U+0B9F TAMIL LETTER
> TTA> and உ <u+0B89 TAMIL LETTER U> .  If you don't believe me, paste
> them into Word and use alt/X to convert the characters to their codepoints.
>
> Richard.
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